Legislative bills in Albany can be stacked several feet thick on lawmakers’ desks every day of session, voted on, and then dumped mostly unread into trash and recycling bins. The cost of printing bills alone is $13 million a year. ...

Sharon Newman had no interest in being a small-business owner, but that’s what she became when her husband Ken died suddenly in 1993, leaving her, three children and Action Envelope behind. Newman decided to keep the Lindenhurst-based company going – ...